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Edith Wharton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Edith Wharton Born January 24 New York City, New York Died August 11 Saint-Brice-sous-Forªt France Occupation Novelist, short story writer, designer Edith Wharton January 24 August 11 ) was an American novelist short story writer, and designer Contents Early life Literary Success Later life Death ... edit Early life Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to the wealthy New York family often associated with the phrase " Keeping up with the Joneses ". She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous and incisive novels and short stories. As such, she was well-acquainted with many of her era's literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt In 1885, at twenty-three years of age, she married Edward (Teddy) Robbins Wharton, who was twelve years her senior. From a well-established Boston family, he was a sportsman and a gentleman of Wharton's social class and shared her love of travel, although they had little in common intellectually. He began spending money on younger women and this began to take a toll on Wharton's mental health. They divorced in , after he suffered a nervous breakdown and was confined to a hospital. Besides her writing, Wharton was a highly regarded

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Bibliography Criticism Domestic Goddesses Home Domestic Goddess Edith Wharton once said, about critics and biographers: "After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others." It seems that there is an abundance of blatantly wrong or just slightly incorrect information about Wharton's life and literature; it also seems that this problem was one Wharton herself faced. Born Edith Jones, January 24, 1862, she went on to become the first woman to ever win the Pulitzer prize for her novel The Age of Innocence, in 1921. You can read Wharton's own impressions of her life in the autobiography A Backward Glance. Her life story is as interesting as those of the women in her novels, and the biography by Lewis (see works cited link) is an excellent source of history, entertainment and context. One of Wharton's ancestors, Ebenezer Stevens, participated in the Boston Tea Party, and had this to say about the legend of this Revolutionary event: The party was about seventy or eighty. At the head of the wharf we met the detachment of our company. . . We commenced handling the boxes of tea on deck, at first commenced breaking them with axes, but found much difficulty . . . We were careful to prevent any being taken away; n

3. Edith Wharton Edith Newbold Jones, the daughter of wealthy parents, was born in New York in 1861. Educated at home and in Europe, she married Edward Wharton in 1885. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwharton.htm

Home Email Search Author ... Index Page Edith Newbold Jones, the daughter of wealthy parents, was born in New York in 1861. Educated at home and in Europe, she married Edward Wharton i n 1885. Her first collection of short stories, The Greater Inclination , appeared in 1899. The publication of The Touchstone (1900) and the House of Mirth (1905), established her as a major novelist. After divorcing Edward Wharton, she moved to Paris in 1906 where she met and fell in love with Morton Fullerton. Wharton published Ethan Frome (1911) and The Custom of the Country (1913) before the outbreak of the First World War . Early in 1915 the French Red Cross asked Wharton to make a tour of some military hospitals near the Western Front to publicize the need for medical supplies. General Joseph Joffre was also persuaded to allow Wharton to visit Verdun and other battlefields. Wharton's articles about these visits to the frontline originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine . These were collected together and later published in the book, Fighting France (1915). The following year Wharton edited a literary anthology

4. Edith Wharton --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Edith Wharton American author best known for her stories and novels about the upperclass society into which she http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076735/Edith-Wharton

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Edith Wharton (1862-1938) Edith Wharton Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to George and Lucretia Jones in New York City on January 24, 1862. She belonged to an aristocratic New York family with ancestry dating back three centuries. As a daughter of society , her role was to learn the mannerisms and rituals expected of well-bred young women in those days. Later she would rebel against this role but as a child she was schooled at home and had the privilege of use of her father's extensive library. She was privately educated at home and in Europe by governesses and tutors. In 1885, Wharton married Teddy Wharton, who was twelve years older than she was. They lived a life of relative ease with homes in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Slowly, Wharton grew dissatisfied with the roles of wife and society matron. When she discovered Teddy had taken money from her to provide a home for his mistress in Boston, their marriage fell apart. Also, Wharton had met and fallen in love with Morton Fullerton and had been sexually awakened as a 46 year old woman living virtually on her own in Paris. Wharton divorced in 1913. Between 1900 and 1938, Wharton created many, many novels. The publication of the

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Fiction Ethan Frome Summer The Age of Innocence The Bunner Sisters ... Read Print Edith Wharton Search within all works by Edith Wharton To read literature by Edith Wharton, select from the list on the left. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Letters of Edith Wharton The Whartons spent much time in Europe from 1906. Although she maintained after their divorce in 1913 a residence in the U.S., she continued to live in France, where she spent the rest of her life. She became a literary hostess to young writers at her Paris apartment and her garden home in the south of France. Among her friends were Henry James, Walter Berry and Bernard Berenson, with whom she traveled in Germany in 1913. Berenson later told his wife Mary that when he had a dinner with Edith in a hotel, she "eyed a young man at a neighboring table and said: 'When I see such a type my first thought is how to put him into my next novel.'" During World War I Wharton wrote reports for American newspaper. She assisted in organizing the American Hostel for Refugees, and the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee, taking charge of 600 Belgian children who had to leave their orphanage at the time of the German advance. She was also active in fund-raising activities, participating in the production of an illustrated anthology of war writings by prominent authors and artists of the period. Wharton's novella 'The Marne' (1918) criticized America's slowness to help France. Her last visits to the U.S. were in 1913 and 1923. However, many of her works still had American settings. Wharton's favorite place to write was her bedroom.

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Edith Wharton From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton ) was an American novelist, short story writer and designer. Contents Sourced The Age of Innocence (1920) A Backward Glance (1934) Unsourced ... edit Sourced There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it. "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" North American Review (November 1902), p. 631 It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues. Sanctuary , (1903) part II, ch. IV A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. "The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. The House of Mirth (1905), bk.1, ch. 6

8. Edith Wharton Biography And Summary Edith Wharton biography with 317 pages of profile on Edith Wharton sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Edith_Wharton

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The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Edith Wharton Edith Wharton Search all of Edith Wharton Advanced Search Edith Wharton (1862-1937) , American author, wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence Newland reddened. “Living together? Well, why not? Who had the right to make her life over if she hadn’t? I'm sick of the hypocrisy that would bury alive a woman of her age if her husband prefers to live with harlots.” He stopped and turned away angrily to light his cigar. “Women ought to be free—as free as we are,” he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.-Ch. 5 Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Wharton examines upper-class values and morals in all their conventionality and tradition, rigidity and hypocrisy, at times with her subtle irony and wit. As Newland Archer is living the life of the just and doing all the right things to establish his respectability in society, his naïveté comes to the fore when his affections are torn between two women. Edith Wharton herself broke out of the conventional mores of her time to become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She is the source of many such witticisms and concise observations on human nature as “ .the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

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I n her long career, which stretched over forty years and included the publication of more than forty books, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) portrayed a fascinating segment of the American experience. She was a born storyteller, whose novels are justly celebrated for their vivid settings, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness. Her characters, such as Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence, Ethan Fromme , and the charming but ineffectual Lily Bart in The House of Mirth , are some of the most memorable in American literature. Often portrayed as tragic victims of cruel social conventions, they are trapped in bad relationships or confining circumstances. Her own life stands as an example of the obstacles that a woman of her time and place had to overcome to find self-realization. E dith Wharton's writing career was launched one hundred years ago, with the publication of her first book, The Decoration of Houses , written with her architect friend, Ogden Codman. The Decoration of Houses was an immediate success, and encouraged the emergence of professional decorators in the new style, such as Elsie de Wolfe. E dith's parents, George Frederic and Lucretia Jones, were descendants of English and Dutch colonists who had made fortunes in shipping, banking, and real estate.

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Contact Us FAQ's Staff Directory Job Opportunities Restoration News Press Room Join Mailing List Annual Report/Newsletter calendar directions support gallery ... THE MILLS COME TO THE MOUNT On display through Sunday, December 23rd! The grounds and Gift Shop will remain open Wednesday through Sunday , from 10 AM-4 PM and the Mansion will be open to the public on weekends only from 10 AM-4 PM. The Fruit of the Tree. Through haunting photographs of Berkshire textile workers, artifacts of the mills, and scenes from the book featuring authentic period clothing, The Mount has brought The Fruit of the Tree to life. The exhibit is included with admission to The Mount, and will be on view through December 23, 2007. More Support The Mount! Contribute to the restoration of The Mount's estate and gardens, created by one of America's most accomplished women. The Mount Bookstore Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 AM - 4 PM through December 23rd. Now online! Click here to browse through our wonderful array of books and other gifts. Wharton Letter Reopens a Mystery Wednesday, November 21, 2007 -

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Home About Edith Wharton Links In the News ... Wharton News and Notes 24 January. Happy birthday to Edith Wharton! (Born January 24, 1862) 13 January Nominations invited for EWS Executive Board and Secretary positions . Completed nomination forms should be returned by email to BOTH L.Rattray@hull.ac.uk and SSTowheed@aol.com before the closing date of 30 March 2008. 11 January. Edith Wharton sessions at MLA 2008. Announcement of "Glimpses of the Moon: A Jazz Age Musical" at Edith Wharton: News and Notes. 10 January. Deadline extended for "Edith Wharton and Celebrity" panel at ALA 2008. 3 January 2008. Updates to the Wharton chronology and to the FAQ (quotation about "If we make up our minds not to be happy, we could have a fairly good time.") Shafquat Towheed and Laura Rattray elected to the EWS Executive Board. Deadlines: CFP: Edith Wharton Panels at MLA 2008 (15 March 2008) CFP: Edith Wharton and History (20 January 2008) CFP: Edith Wharton at ALA (15 January 2008) EWS/Beinecke Research A ward (15 March 2008) Link to the The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in the Berkshires

17. Edith Wharton In her letters to the bisexual Fullerton, published in The Letters of edith wharton (1988) she often expressed her hurt feelings when he toyed with her http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wharton.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Edith Wharton (1862-1937) - original surname Jones American author, best-known for her stories and ironic novels about upper class people. Wharton's central themes were the conflict between social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the 'nouveau riche', who had made their fortunes in more recent years. Wharton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1920). The jury had voted for Sinclair Lewis 's highly popular book Main Street , but the Columbia University trustees overturned the decision. Lewis dedicated his next work, Arrowsmith , to Wharton. "I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it. " (from A Backward Glance Edith Newbold Jones Wharton was born in New York, N.Y., into a wealthy and socially prominent family. A few years after her birth, in 1866 the family went abroad due to financial troubles. Wharton was educated privately at home by European governesses, learning French, Italian, and German. Her early years she spent rather with books than participating in the activities of high society. At the age of 14, Wharton wrote a novella under the pseudonym David Olivieri. She had started to compose poems in her teens and one of her poems was published in the

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Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) US novelist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 16 of 16 total Read the works of Edith Wharton online at The Literature Page A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. Edith Wharton - More quotations on: [ Writing After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Edith Wharton - More quotations on: [ Criticism Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton - More quotations on: [ Art Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? Edith Wharton - More quotations on: [ Art Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

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Fiction Non-Fiction Young Readers Poetry ... Members :: Tools Printer-friendly Edith Wharton Titles in Fiction category: Age of Innocence, The On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Bunner Sisters In the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show-window ... Ethan Frome I had known something of New England village life long before I made my home in the same county as my imaginary Starkfield; though, during the years spent there, certain of its aspects became much more familiar to me. Even before that final initiation, however, I had had an uneasy sense that th ... Reef, The "Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth. Anna." Summer A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. Touchstone, The

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